Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, although it is not universally observed. Oklahoma County observes it, ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

President Joe Biden signed legislation on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth a U.S. federal holiday after Congress passed The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act that same month.

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder ...

Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19 and commemorates the date in which Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger told community members in Galveston, Texas about President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed the ...

The Knoxville Smokies on August 8 honored and celebrated the Knoxville Giants, Knoxville's first Negro League team, on what ...

The Marlin Juneteenth Organization is helping local families prepare for the new school year by giving away over 150 ...